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Antonio Tempesta

Plate 131: Scylla Changed by Circe's Spell (Scylla Circes veneficÿs in monstrum marinum), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

1606
Etching
10.4 × 11.5 cm (4.1 × 4.5 in)

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